Radical Blog

When it comes to understanding our changing world, space is the ultimate high ground. Last week Muon Space, a pioneering developer of satellite-based climate intelligence, announced its Series A financing led by Radical Ventures (read TechCrunch’s coverage here). The world-class Muon Space team is catalyzing the fight against climate change by becoming the leading source of actionable planetary intelligence. Founded by veteran technology and aerospace leaders, Muon Space is launching hundreds of scientific-grade sensors into space to help every business better understand and react to our changing planet. Google and the Environmental Defense Fund are already customers.

Satellite data provides insights on everything from soil quality to pollution monitoring. For almost every business, gaining access to new, sophisticated data from space remains incredibly difficult. Embarking on missions to collect data from space requires deep satellite and remote sensing expertise to design, build, launch and operate. Turning those new data sets into useful insights requires yet more expertise. Through its turnkey Scientific Earth Observation services, Muon is helping organizations that do not have space competency develop and utilize space-based observations.

Muon Space brings Earth remote sensing capability to a broad array of organizations and institutions who lack the expertise and resources necessary to develop it themselves. Helping the company deliver on this ambition is Muon Space’s CEO and Co-founder, Jonny Dyer. Before Muon, he was Principal Engineer at Google Geo and Chief Engineer at the satellite imaging company Skybox Imaging. As Jonny puts it: “The only way organizations can make meaningful decisions around how to respond to climate change and monitor the efficacy of those decisions is to have access to timely, high-quality data. Muon Space’s platform makes getting insights from space fast, reliable and low-friction.”